Neil Young postpones release of Record Store Day boxset

Neil Young has delayed the release of his four-album Record Store Day boxset until November because he wants to focus on other projects.

Just 3,500 copies of ‘Official Release Series Discs 5-8’ were due to be pressed. As well as ‘On The Beach’, ‘Tonight’s The Night’ and ‘Zuma’, it was due to include ‘Time Fades Away’, Young’s rare 1973 album which he has previously refused to reissue.

Young revealed yesterday (March 18) that he was so angry with how his 1978 album ‘Comes A Time’ was mastered that he bought 20,000 copies of it to use as shingles on a barn roof at his home. He said: “The tape got damaged when it went through the airport or something.”

Neil Young & Crazy Horse headline Barclaycard British Summertime on July 12 at London’s Hyde Park and play Liverpool Echo Arena the following night.